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| Roy Wood <roy@centricsystems.ca> wrote in message news:1001016140839-r...tems.ca... (...) Roy: Welcome to Castle! It is pretty easy to be bitten by that "bug"! IMHO, theme buckets would be huge, not only among AFOLs but also with parents. At (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) We'll forgive you anyways <grin,duck,run> (...) Sorry, unless you scope out garage sales or have a relative strapped for cash. (...) We are all waiting to see. (...) It would be nice to see more Theme-based tubs and buckets. (...) I do not (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.lego.direct)
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| (...) I mention this with caution, as, even among purists who cut, paint, and sand their LEGO bricks, the very mention of clones is verboten, but the MegaBloks ProBuilder Series USS Kittyhawk retails for about $50 and includes over 600 2x4 grey (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| Okay, I've been bitten by the castle bug. :-) Now, as has been pointed out here in the past, it's pretty hard to lay your hands on large quantities of grey bricks cheaply. Anyone have any comments to the contrary on that? Lego's bulk-direct sales (...) (24 years ago, 16-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) and sand (...) MegaBloks (...) over 600 (...) Yeah, it's tempting to go over to the dark side when you see something like that. The Mega-Blok grey isn't a perfect match for the Lego light grey though, is it? The black seems okay, and I nearly (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands)
| | | | | Re: Theme Buckets (was Re: Bulk Direct)
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| (...) Based on the $24.99 price for the 291 piece 7159 Podracer Bucket, I doubt we'll see a 500-600 piece castle bucket for $20. (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
| | | | | Re: Theme Buckets (was Re: Bulk Direct)
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| Frank Filz <ffilz@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:39EC87CC.1CFB@m...ing.com... (...) At (...) basic (...) minifigs (...) more (...) Yikes! I had not realized that the Pod bucket was only 291 pieces (I have no interest in Pod racers so I have (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| (...) have (...) bucket). (...) in a (...) of a (...) I'm not convinced that the cost need be higher just because of specialty pieces. I think the cost of producing a specialty piece in large quantities is probably about the same as a simple 2x4 (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) Not even close. Also, the surface polish is clearly inferior*. I plan to exploit this when I get around to doing my "bricks-only" castle, mixing the MB greys with Lego grey (and possibly dark grey) to get an effect that looks like a (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.castle)
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| (...) Economy of scale certainly is something which affects the price of specialty pieces, but I bet they do cost somewhat more to make (the extra cost of plastic should be relatively small, but the mold makes fewer parts, and probably costs more to (...) (24 years ago, 19-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.market.theory)
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| There's been a lot of speculating about margins. Why not put some numbers on it? To get things started, how much is a ton of bricks? You may assume the standard assortment found in a blue tub or other basic bucket. Further assume that the wholesale (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.market.theory)
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| (...) DEAREST LEGO, If I made a LEGO CASTLE bucket/tub it(they) would contain 500-1200 pieces and be assorted in Black, Light Grey, Dark Grey, Brown, Tan, Green, Blue and Red. Special parts might be varied arches, windows, wooden doors, gates, (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| I've already done so in some of MOC, which are the modular wall sections. The very dark gray from Tyco is very nice too mixed in with all the other gray. Rich -- Have Fun! C-Ya! Legoman34 ***** Legoman34 (Richard W. Schamus)... (My views do not (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.clone-brands, lugnet.castle)
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